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September 12
Opening
I. General
  • Hype Presentation Sign-Up is Now Available at the Site (Make Note of the Site Password); presentations start next week with Hannah and Ruba
  • Syllabus (flipbook and PDF are both on website now)​ ​
II. Text-Rendering: Find a line from the last week's readings and/or your own writing.  Share the line and explain its impact.  We will do this in a go-around.
#BlackGirlMagic Reading & Writing
III. Reading Assignment: We will read four different articles that chronicle the evolution and politics of #BlackGirlMagic together:
IV. Writing Assignment: Jot down notes on the page, on your phone, on your screen, however you prefer to compose, on the following:
  1. What's important here to know/remember about the definition and political location of #BGM?
  2. Now let's build the argument that the course intends to make... did #BGM really just come out of nooowhere?
  • What is #BGM's relationship to Black Feminist organizing/ statement-making like the Combahee River Collective Statement?
  • What is #BGM's relationship to Black Queer Feminist Rhetorics that Barbara Ransby locates in #BlackLivesMatter and the Movement for Black Lives? 
  • What is #BGM's relationship to Black Queer Feminist Rhetorics like Audre Lorde's "Transformation of Silence and Anger?"  
  • What is #BGM's relationship to Digital Blackness today?  Pretend that you are explaining this to Black girls... what will you tell THEM about the connections and histories? 
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Kheris Rogers and her T-shirt line created after being bullied for her dark skin in school. @kherispoppin #BlackGirlMagic #MelaninPoppin
Small Group Discussions &  #BGM Wrap-Up
V. Small Group Sharing: Share what you wrote/thought above about #BGM.  
  1. Choose a facilitator for today who will collect your thoughts and discussions.  The facilitators can create a bulleted list... or you can be more adventurous and do something like write a letter to... "Black Girls Who Are Looking for Magic When The Rainbow is Enuf"
  2. Facilitators need to write something up... we will collate and collect this as our own statement.  Email your notes to carmenkynard@gmail.com or submit your handwritten notes.

VI. Facilitators Report Back & Open Discussion